Name: The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1939
Cast: Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Kakuko Mori, Tokusaburo Arashi

Shôtarô Hanayagi

Kôkichi Takada

Gonjurô Kawarazaki

Kakuko Mori

Tokusaburo Arashi

Yôko Umemura

Nobuko Fushimi

Kikuko Hanaoka

The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother&#x27;s wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved&#x27;s glory.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

残菊物語 Zangiku monogatari

Takashi Shimura

Shôsaku Sugiyama

Chiezô Kataoka

Sôjin Kamiyama

Mineko Môri

Akanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Although he comes from the samurai class, he now lives in poverty among the common people in times of rebellion, but the failed Kakita is not skilled in martial arts.

Capricious Young Man

Akanishi Kakita

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Masayuki Mori

Kinuyo Tanaka

Ichisaburo Sawamura

Sakae Ozawa

Kikue Mori

Mitsuko Mito

Machiko Kyō

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Jessica Hausner

Jean Douchet

Gabriela Trujillo

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

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Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain

雨月物語

Japanese

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VOST - SD

Kyōko Kagawa

Chieko Naniwa

Ichirō Sugai

Eitarô Shindô

Kimiko Tachibana

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Akitake Kôno

Masao Shimizu

Ken Mitsuda

Kazukimi Okuni

Yôko Kosono

Teruko Ômi

Masahiko Kato

Keiko Enami

Bontarô Akemi

Arnaud Desplechin

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Sansho the Bailiff

山椒大夫

Haruo Tanaka

Eitaro Ozawa

Kazuo Hasegawa

Yôko Minamida

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Hiroshi Mizuno

Hisao Toake

Kazue Tamaki

Keiko Koyanagi

Sayako Nakagami

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

The Crucified Lovers

近松物語

Daisuke Katō

Ayako Wakao

Aiko Mimasu

Michiyo Kogure

Kenji Sugawara

Yasuko Kawakami

Bontarô Miake

Sadako Sawamura

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Ciné club

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The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

Street of Shame

赤線 地帯

Toshiro Mifune

Tsukie Matsuura

Follows a woman&#x27;s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

The Life of Oharu

Saikaku ichidai onna

Sanae Takasugi

Mitsuo Nagata

Tomie Tsunoda

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Women of the Night

Yoru no onna tachi

Kuniko Miyake

A woman&#x27;s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko&#x27;s home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women&#x27;s rights.

Flame of My Love

わが恋は燃えぬ

Nobuko Otowa

Kiyoko Hirai

Yūji Hori

Reiko Kongō

Eijirō Yanagi

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband&#x27;s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Miss Oyu

お遊さま

french

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Paulette Goddard

Jack Oakie

Reginald Gardiner

Henry Daniell

Billy Gilbert

Grace Hayle

Carter DeHaven Sr.

Emma Dunn

Bernard Gorcey

Paul Weigel

Maurice Moscovitch

Charlie Chaplin

A barber wounded during the First World War returns home after 20 years within hospital walls. His shop has grown full of cobwebs and dust, but it is the hateful graffiti on his shop window that takes him totally by surprise. Hynkel, the tyrannical dictator, and his henchmen persecute the barber, as well as the rest of the Jewish community, including the beautiful Hannah. 
A visionary satire that marked history, just as history itself left its mark on the film.

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

The Great Dictator

English

Cary Grant

Rosalind Russell

Gene Lockhart

Ralph Bellamy

Porter Hall

Helen Mack

Cliff Edwards

Ernest Truex

La comédie chez Howard Hawks par Claude-Jean Philippe

A classic screwball comedy in which Russell plays reporter Hildy Johnson, who, on the eve of her remarriage, is talked into one more assignment by her editor and ex-husband, Grant. While interviewing a condemned man, Hildy realizes that his hanging is planned as a vote-getting measure. Spontaneously, she helps the man escape.

His girl friday

His Girl Friday

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VF - SD

Marcel Dalio

Nora Gregor

Julien Carette

Roland Toutain

Paulette Dubost

Mila Parély

Jean Renoir

Gaston Modot

Richard Francœur

Claire Gérard

Odette Talazac

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Anne Mayen

Christian Rouaud

Laurent Cantet & Pascale Ferran

Jean Renoir à propos de son film La Règle du jeu

Jean Renoir vous présente

La direction d'acteurs par Jean Renoir

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A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

Réalisme poétique français

The Rules of the Game

Français

Fernand Ledoux

Henri Crémieux

Jean Gabin

Jean Dasté

Madeleine Renaud

Michèle Morgan

Charles Blavette

Jean Marchat

Henri Poupon

Nane Germon

René Bergeron

The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, Andr&eacute; Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard. The captain falls in love with Catherine and leaves his wife for her. When he offers to come away with Catherine, she declines and leaves him. He will have lost the two women he loved.

Stormy Waters

Deutsch

Eugene Pallette

Claude Rains

Jean Arthur

Edward Arnold

Guy Kibbee

Thomas Mitchell

Beulah Bondi

James Stewart

Entretien avec Franck Capra

Cinéma, Cinémas

Cinéma, Cinémas 02/02/1983 : entretien avec Franck Capra

Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra&#x27;s Mr. Smith goes to Washington, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Danielle Darrieux

Claude Dauphin

André Luguet

Jean Tissier

Saturnin Fabre

Junie Astor

Marcelle Monthil

Charles Dechamps

Jean Hébey

Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre.

Battement de cœur

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